[SOLUTION] Re: Suppressing automatic modes

Perry Hutchison perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sat Sep 2 20:44:10 PDT 2006


> > Since I don't know (nor especially need to find out :) how Xorg
> > chooses which depth to use, I added the same Modes line to all
> > of them.  Xorg now sets the virtual size to 1024x768, and rejects
> > the built-in 1280x960 mode as being too wide.
> 
> I can swear I illustrated an example with the "DefaultDepth 24"
> stanza in my original reply to your post. Just like most systems,
> you have to tell Xorg what you want :-)

You did, indeed, I just didn't fully understand the intent (and now
that I do, at least somewhat more than then, I'm inclined to let Xorg
use its default depth unless/until I run into a reason to change it :)



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